Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga is once again eyeing bringing down the pass requirements in public schools.
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Motshekga’s New Bid To Lower Pass Mark In Public Schools
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WHITE BOERS: We Have Had Enough Of The ANC (Ramaphosa) And Malema’s Land Grab Threats!
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THE fight for land ownership is reaching fever pitch – it has become “a war against the Boer Afrikaner people”, the Boer Afrikaner Volksraad warned the ANC.
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Land debate in South Africa is about dignity and equality— not the Constitution
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The country’s current debate over land expropriation without compensation, which has now been endorsed by Parliament, is important. Not because, as some fear, it will radically change the constitution. Rather, it tells South Africans how, in the economy and other spheres, the country deals with its minority ruled past: by crisis followed by compromise.
Crises are the only way change happens because, since the 1970s, the goal of the minority which has called the shots in the society for decades has been to ensure that changes alter as little as possible.
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One thing is clear: until poor South Africans own their homes, be they in cities or rural areas, development will stall
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Cyril Ramaphosa was immediately hailed as a breath of fresh air after the decade-long Jacob Zuma debacle. The nation forgot, or ignored, his role in Marikana while his prowess as a businessman was lauded. A sensible, urbane politician who would save the economy.
His recent Cabinet reshuffle, however, reveals much of the same. The executive remains bloated and, with cronies retaining influence, his reputation for clean governance is shaken. The national conversation, however, has swung to expropriation without compensation.
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’National govt meltdowns bad for municipalities’
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Cape Town – The national government’s departmental “meltdowns” are having a bad effect on municipal budgets and normal services, mayoral committee member for safety, security and social services JP Smith said in Cape Town on Thursday.
“I must just say, for me, there is a pattern emerging,” he said.
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South Africa takes sides in South Sudan
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Last week, a South African citizen was sentenced to death in a courtroom in Juba.
But what exactly was William Endley, a former career officer in the South African army —in both its pre- and post-1994 iterations — doing in South Sudan to begin with?
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The ANC unity cracks over land issue
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The ANC remains divided about its resolution to expropriate land without compensation, despite the historic vote in Parliament this week to start the process to amend the Constitution.
The motion was brought by the Economic Freedom Fighters and supported by the ANC, but it included a caveat that expropriation would only take place if food security and economic stability were guaranteed.
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Malema: DA Is The “Enemy Of The People” For Not Supporting Land Expropriation Motion – ‘The DA Can Go To Hell’
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While the DA can still rely on the EFF’s support to continue governing the Joburg and Tshwane Metros, EFF leader Julius Malema is determined to “punish” the party in Nelson Mandela Bay for rejecting its motion to allow a Constitutional review on land expropriation without compensation.
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The Rainbow Nation – Cauldron Of Crime and Sh*thole
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Another day, more shocking headlines of another life lost to crime.
While headline stories like Shrien Dewani, Oscar and the latest high profile murder of Meyiwa occasionally draw attention to the high rate of crime in our country, crime never sleeps, it never rests, and it never pauses for a second.
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Woman Fighting For Her Life After Escaping From Rapists During Home Invasion
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#HomeInvasion #AttemptedRape – Heidi Barnard is fighting for her life after she jumped off the second story of her home in an attempt to escape a brutal rape during a home invasion.
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South Africa: 2,000 Jobs Lost as Former Lipton Tea Plantation Collapses Under Inept Black Management
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More than 2,000 workers have lost their jobs in the latest South African “land reform” project—which seizes white farms and hands them over to ZANC cadres—as one of the country’s largest tea plantations, formerly run by Lipton Teas international, has totally collapsed into weeds after less than ten years in ZANC cadre hands.
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A British Legal Expert’s Opinion On Illegal “Expropriation Of Land Without Compensation”
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Response written by Mark Philip Malcolm Horn – London Barrister. * No one does business with a thief, and no one extends credit to a thief.
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It has started: First step to land expropriation without compensation
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The National Assembly has just voted in favour of beginning a process so that the Constitution can be amended to allow land expropriation without compensation.
On Tuesday, 324 of 400 MPs sat in the National Assembly to vote on the motion that was brought by the Economic Freedom Fighters.
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Premier Ace Magashule will be hosting a farewell party for himself.
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The Democratic Alliance (DA), Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), as well as the Freedom Front Plus (FF plus) are planning to Boycott Premier Ace Magashule’s State of the Province Address (SOPA) tomorrow evening.
DA leader, Roy Jankielsohn, said that opposition parties in the Free State will not be supporting any attempts Magashule may have to grandstand in the province, and what will end up being a going-away party at the taxpayer’s expense.
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North West health boss gave Gupta firm R30m. Why hasn’t he been fired?
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North West health boss Thabo Lekalakala is still in his job‚ despite a recommendation by the provincial legislature that he be suspended immediately for his role in a premature R30-million payment to a Gupta-linked company.
Lekalakala is so far the only man who may be taking the fall for the multi-million rand advance payment to Mediosa‚ a company supplying mobile clinics
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